Peru Builds on Trade Explosion

Over the past few months, we have seen an increase in shipments going to Peru through our facility. Many of these shipments have been Farm and Construction equipment. We thought the following might be of interest.

News Americas
Peru builds on trade explosion
Source: News Americas via World Trader 18 Jul 2008

Peru is undergoing a spate of new ports building as its trade with the rest of the world mushrooms.

Most recent is Neptunia, a logistics and warehousing company that is "very advanced" in building a new port north of Callao, said a company official.

"This new Port will be ready and operational during the first quarter of 2010 and will count with specialised mineral concentrates loading berth, liquids and grains discharging berth," he added.
This is on top of DP World who has already started construction of a terminal at Peru's main port Callao, 20 km from capital Lima.

The first phase of the project will see around $210m invested in two berths comprising 660m of quay line and 22 hectares of yard, capable of handling vessels of 5,500 teu.

It will be operational in the second half of 2009. Further development will be phased in, in line with demand, with total capacity projected to reach around 1.3m teu. DP World has a thirty year build and operate concession.

Women's Global Leadership Conference in Energy & Technology

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E-Filing of Shipper Export Documentation

The New E-Filing regulations seem to be foremost in everyone's thoughts this week, especially since these new regulations went into effect July 2. We received the following notification from the U. S. Commercial Service, Export Assistance Center here in Houston

Mandatory Electronic Filing For SED Shipments

The U.S. Census Bureau has issued the final rule, which requires mandatory filing of export informaton through the Automated Export System (AES) or through the AESDirect for all shipments where a Shipper's Export Declaration (SED) is required, effective July 2, 2008. There will be a 90 day implementation period, ending September 30. After that, export information must be filed electronically through the AES or AESDirect. These new regulations, published in the Federal Register on June 2, 2008 have tougher penalty provisions that affect everyone in the export process. Penalties may be imposed per violation of the Foreigh Trade Regulations (FTR) from $1,100 to $10,000 both civil and criminal. Anyone submitting paper SEDs after September 30, 2008, will be in violation and subject to penalties. for details on this important rule, see: www.census.gov/foreign-trade/aes/mandatory/index.html

Further, we received the following notification from the Journal of Commerce about an upcoming Web Training on these new regulations.

Journal of Commerce

"Live Teleconference"
New Export Rules – E-Filing of Shipper Export Declaration
Friday, July 25, 2008 ~ 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Eastern Time Zone

A comprehensive revision of the nation's export regulations, including mandatory electronic filing of export documents, effective July 1st, will bring an end to paper shippers export declaration, and make the Automated Export System the only legal means for filing export data. Enforcement of these new regulations will begin 60 days after.Census will phase in the regulations to give exporters time to get accustomed to the biggest change, mandatory electronic filing of export documents through the Automated Export System. Jerry Greenwell, Trade Ombudsman, Foreign Trade Division, U.S. Census Bureau, will give more insight to the Automated Export System.

Other topics to be covered:

• How will Census delegate enforcement authority to other agencies?
• Who is going to get penalized for noncompliance?
• How will the penalties be enforced?
• What will be the mitigating factors?
• Who is responsible for routed export transactions?
• What are the major changes in the new Foreign Trade Regulations from the old regulations?

Moderator:Bob Edmonson, Senior Editor, The Journal of CommerceSpeaker: Jerry Greenwell, Trade Ombudsman, Foreign Trade Division, U.S. Census Bureau

Live participation is $99 and allows access to one phone line for an unlimited number of listeners. A live question and answer session will follow the presentations.

WHEN
Friday, July 25, 2008 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Eastern Time Zone

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Thursday, July 24, 2008

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Complying with Export Controls on International Technology Transfers

Technology Transfer is not something that concerns the majority of the projects that we handle, but it is of concern for many of our customers in the products and services that they offer clients worldwide. So we thought we would take a few minutes to share information about this upcoming conference.





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Register now for the lowest conference price of $1895 expiring on July 21st
At American Conference Institute's 4th National Forum on "International Technology Transfers" you will have an invaluable opportunity to share best practices with industry experts. Government speakers will include the FBI, U.S. Department of Justice and BIS. Critical topics will include:



How to register:
CALL: 888-224-2480
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· Reconciling deemed export/re-export restrictions with anti-discrimination and privacy laws
· Application of ITAR to defense and commercial technologies
· Complying with encryption requirements and preparing for new regulations
· Enforcement, prosecution and investigations of tech transfer cases: Update
· Offshore outsourcing of tech support, R & D and software development: Protecting intangibles
· Strengthening your internal technology compliance program
· When and how voluntary disclosures can mitigate your liability
· Ensuring compliance of foreign affiliates and subsidiaries
· Implementing effective IT & physical controls to manage employee and visitor access
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Containers
Slower exports rein in Shenzhen volume growth
By Sandra Tsui in Hong Kong - Monday 14 July 2008
Source: World Trade Magazine

Shenzhen is the world's fourth busiest and China's No.2 container port.THROUGHPUT growth at south China’s Shenzhen port in the first half of this year slowed to half of last year’s pace as its major cargo source, Guangdong province, lagged the rest of the country in export growth during the period.

Industry analysts warned that the slowdown may signal a widening export crisis in the country and local media have hinted at a possible resumption of the tax rebate policy that was used by the government in the 1990s to help exporters.

The world’s fourth busiest and China’s No.2 container port handled 10.2m teu in the first six months of this year, 7.2% higher than the same period last year, according to initial figures from the Shenzhen transport bureau.

The transport bureau attributed the slower pace of growth to shrinking US export volume and a 5% fall in throughput in the eastern Yantian container terminals to 4.3m teu.

Chiwan and Shekou located in western Shenzhen and operated by the China Merchants Group, fared better. Chiwan and Shekou handled 3m teu and 2.8m teu, respectively, representing increases of 9% and 30%.

There are 13 more international services calling at Shenzhen this year so far, most of them intra-Asia services. However, more than 100 port calls has been cancelled on North America route, said the bureau.

Guangdong province, the major manufacturing base for exports in southern China, has been hit hard by weak demand from North America, a big cut in tax rebates and more stringent environmental and labour policies.

The province’s external trade volume rose just 15% in the first five months, 11 percentage points lower than the average for the whole of China. Export volume rose 15.6%, 7.3 percentage points below the national average.

Figures for the month of June show a more alarming picture. The value of China’s exports climbed 17.6% to $121.5bn in June, said China’s customs department.

This is the third time the country’s export growth rate has fallen below 20% since 2006. The first and the second times, in March 2007 and February this year, fell into the usual low-cargo period after the Chinese New Year.

Port Workers go on Strike in India.

Since many of our customers routinely import or export to India we thought that this might be of general interest.

Port workers to go on strike from July 15 midnight in India
Source: World Trade Magazine


MUMBAI: Port and dock workers in 11 ports of the country will go on strike from July 16 after talks between representatives of workers' unions and Transport and Shipping Minister, Mr T R Balu in New Delhi failed on Thursday.

Today's meeting was held to evade a deadlock between the Government and the workers, whose demands included 13.5 per cent interim hike in pay effective from January 2007, increase in bonus, inclusion of 50 per cent dearness allowance (DA) in the basic pa y and filling up of vacant posts among others, a press release issued by All India Port and Dock Workers' Federation said.
Following the failure in the talks, the strike will start from July 15 midnight, the statement said adding that employees of the officers' cadre will also participate in the strike.

The entire activity in the 11 ports will come to a total halt because o f the strike, affecting loading and unloading operations, the federation said. - PTI

ISPM 15 Compliant

We're very excited about the growth that we have experienced over the past couple of years and during this time we've sort of ignored our blog, which was orginially designed to be an online newsletter. However we've given considerable consideration as to where we want to head with it and we're going to follow a new path.

Since our Company newsletter is produced monthly and emailed to customers and potential customers, this format is no longer needed for that. Our customers email us thanking us for all the information that we share with them about the industry, and we just don't have enough room in our newsletter for all that is happening on the International Trade market. Some of which is great information but not needed by them for day to day operations.

For those of you wishing to receive our newsletter it can be subscribed to simply by emailing sales@dixiecullen.com

Export Packing and Containerizing - ISPM 15 Compliant

In the 11 years we have been in business we have seen the global economy change in many ways. Top of the list is that the world is no longer as large and daunting as it has been, more and more companies are doing business globally. We too are looking at the needs of our Global Customers.

Just this year alone our customers have shipped steel, machinery, construction equipment, skidded product and material and farm tractors through our warehouse facility for countries such as Peru, India, France, Venezula, China, Guatamala, Viet Nam and Taiwan.

In order to continue to provide our customers with the quality services that they need, we have applied for and received our ISPM 15 Certification. You may be asking what this means to you.

Quite simply it means to you that each piece of wood that we use in building the skids, blocking your containers, or building a crate will be stamped with our ISPM 15 Certified Stamp, every two feet. So it can easily be seen when and if your container is opened for inspection that the proper blocking and dunnage is used.

It also means that our packing and containerinzing operation is inspected monthly to assure international compliance.

Wood Packaging Materials Regulation Update 7/06

Effective Immediately





On July 5, any ISPM-15 marked or unmarked wood packaging material (PM) that is found to be infested with a live wood boring pest of the families Cerambycidae (longhonred beetle), Buprestidae (woodboring beetles), Siricidae (woodwasps), Cossidae (carpenter moth), Curculionidae (weevils), Platypodidae (ambrosia beetles), Sesidae (clearwing moths) and Scolytidae (Bark beetles) will require immediate re-exportation at the importers expense.

For further details click here

Transloading Services on the Rise

Dual Hoist Overhead Cranes make the Transloadinig of Pipe a Snap!

Our warehouse facility has several Heavy Lift overhead cranes that allow us to safely and effeciently remove material from your Open Top Containers.

Timing is everything for our customers and prompt handling and delivery of material is essential for them.

It is also essential for the driver delivering the container, and the driver that is sitting waiting on the material.

This particular project had the material arriving, being pulled out of the container. Then the container was pulled out , and the matieral was moved to the side permitting the tractor trailer, that would be delivering this material to the end customer, to back in safely.

Then the load is moved back over and safely set onto the trailer for securing, tarping and delivery to the customer.

Our office works closely with the supply chain of brokers and truckers coordinating the movement of the material for our customers.

Let us help you keep your material supply moving. Just give us a call at 713-747-1101 or email us at sales@dixiecullen.com for your quotation

Machines headed to India!

Used Machine's bound for India

Dixie Cullen offers our clients export packing and containerizing services, specializing in used machinery and equipment.


Using Certified Heat Treated Wood, we will containerize equipment that our customers purchase.



This equipment will be loaded into the containers, spreading out the weight as necessary, blocking and securing into place so that the containerized equipment does not move or break loose during handling. We do not "just stuff" containers. Bracing is used as necessary to secure high pieces, anchoring as needed to secure movement, and covering in plactic to help protect against the elements in the open top containers.

The entire process is documented in photos, and copies of all photos are emailed to you, your broker and any other parties that you request. Contact us TODAY sales@dixiecullen.com for your personalized quotation

Additional Floor Space Added

30,000 square foot addition added to our warehouse facility

The addition of approximately 30,000 square feet to our warehouse facility permits us to easily handle the expanded services, in addition to our regular services that we offer to our clients.

We have room available for your immediate storage needs, be they intransit, short term or long term requirements.

Please contact us TODAY for your personalized quotation.

sales@dixiecullen.com www.dixiecullen.com
Ph: 713-747-1101 Fax: 713-747-1422

Steel Handling Services Expanded

Value Added Services NOW available

for our Steel Storage Customers

Over the years we have had the opportunity to handle the steel storage and distribution for several of our customers. In recent months we have seen an increase in the number of customers using our warehouse facility to distribute to their customers. We routinely receive material that has been discharged from the ship large quanities that we unload at our warehouse facility, inspect, inventory, place into storage and release upon customers authorization.

Along with the increase in business we also noted that material sometimes comes in damaged, rusty or with torn wrappings. To help our customers facilitate their quality control for material shipped to their end customers we have started offering "cleaning" services. When our customer directs, we can remove torn plastic, fix broken bands, rebundle, clean and oil.

Contact us today with your specific needs sales@dixiecullen.com or by calling 713-747-1101

Dixie Cullen In the News:

Industry Names Top 15 Women in Gulf Transportation . .

Gulf Shipper, a publication of the Journal of Commerce recently wrote about Women excelling in the Gulf Transportation Industry and named the Top 15 Women, of which Catherine James, President of Dixie Cullen Interests Inc was among. Dixie Cullen is located close to the ever growing Port of Houston.

Export Crating & Containerizing Serivces on the Rise!

Forming Roll to China


This forming roll is quite the world traveler, purchased from an American Company it went to Mexico for use, then was shipped to our warehouse facility for storage by the new American Owner of the machine. Just recently it was sold and shipped to China to an end user. The top roll was boxed, pictured above weighing approximately 100,000 pounds and the base also pictured above weight approximately 116.000 pounds. All of our break bulk boxes have lifting devices built into the box. In addition to the two pieces above there were several more break bulk pieces and 9 – 40 foot shipping containers.

Contact us for all you export containerizing and packing needs!

Global Success Story -- Thomas Regional Directory

Global Success Story - Dixie Cullen Interests, Inc.

Q & A with Catherine James, President of DCI

Can you give a brief history of how DCI came to be?

Having been brought up in the machinery moving and plant relocation business, I knew that there was a need for this type of service after seeing one company after another have delays after they purchased their machinery. Time constraints to get the machinery and equipment out of it's original location was exacerbated by delays such as waiting on building permits, waiting on import permits, or waiting on funding. Facilities not being ready to accept delivery was a huge problem, thus the seed was planted for our business.

We then started looking for the proper facility with overhead cranes - they were much harder to find then I originally thought . . . big, heavy-duty overhead cranes and high ceilings, all with an affordable monthly payment. We finally found one just as we received our first storage request to store printing presses. It was located at the corner of Dixie and Cullen, thus our name.

Why enter the exporting service arena?
The export service arena was a simple choice, since we were familiar with many of the major used machinery dealers. We were able to market and win storage contracts of this machinery until it was sold domestically or internationally.

What markets/regions do you service?
We have serviced customers in: China, Korea, Taiwan, Turkey, Brazil, Ecuador, El Salvador, Dominican Republic, India, Pakistan, Germany, Mexico, Canada and Venezuela.
How does DCI promote its services in foreign markets?

Until recently it was primarily US machinery dealers and US manufacturers who were selling the equipment to overseas markets that allowed us to become active in exports. Then there was the transition: our customers became our best sales people. Our customers receiving the machinery that we stored, crated, and containerized would forward us additional leads.
Currently all international customers are serviced through our Houston warehouse facility. Many of our customers will purchase their equipment at various locations throughout the US and drop ship it to our warehouse. We will then consolidate and store the items. When our customer informs us that all paperwork is in order we will crate/containerize as needed for safe shipment.

What is the most important step to winning new business from a foreign company?
All steps in international business are important, including the small details. But I believe that the most important part of winning new business is to build a personal relationship by explaining how and why we will be doing things a certain way. Offer references so your new customers know that you are familiar with the international markets.

How does DCI facilitate the Customs process and how does recent security codes/regulationss affect DCI?
One of the hardest things for us to do is to keep up with many of the new regulations that are going into effect, and many times we will find ourselves updating the freight forwarders of new regulations.

Most of our customers come to us with their custom brokers and freight forwarders already in place. We work with these companies to make sure that they receive all their information in a timely manner. Pictures of each container /crate are taken in various steps of completion and forwarded to both the end customer and their freight forwarders.

Being a member of the Organization of Women in International Trade and the International Transportation Management Associations has been very educational in keeping us updated on many of the new regulations, as well.

Research is showing that global sourcing has become a key step in the purchasing process. What are your thoughts on that statement?
We see this happening, as many of the customers that we shipped machines to several years ago are now shipping products to the US and using our warehouse facility as a distribution point. They are recommending our facility to others from their countries.

What advice do you have for company's exploring the idea of exporting their products?
Take the time to educate yourself about international business and become involved in international trade organizations that can be a resource for you and your business. Ask questions. Research available government programs; see if they can assist you. While working in the export market is much more complicated than dealing with the "company down the street," it can be a very rewarding experience.

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Machinery Storage Services Available

Machinery Storage Services Available . . . short and long term

One of the exciting things about our industrial storage facility is the opportunity that we have to service customers from around the globe. One of the largest foundry’s in India purchased some used machinery at an Auction here in the United States. These machines were brought to our facility for temporary storage while awaiting import permits and document processing.

Dixie Cullen Interests Inc, specializes in the handling, storage and export preparation of machinery and heavy equipment. Be it one small machine or an entire plant facility
Over 200,000 square feet, serviced by heavy lift capacity overhead cranes allow us to handle any size project that our customers may have.

We believe in treating our customer’s machinery and equipment as if it were our own, which is why we have both machinery dealers and manufacturers using our facility, as if it was an extension of their own operations. A photographic record is maintained of all machinery inbound and outbound shipments.

We also have a large, secured, and stabilized yard facility should you desire outside storage or for staging large projects.

Contact us today for all you short or long term storage requirements. Please visit our website or contact us directly for more information about the variety of storage related services that we offer our clients. http://www.dixiecullen.com/ or email us at sales@dixiecullen.com